Sica Sica

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Sica Sica (Villa Aroma)
Basic data
Residents (state) 3086 pop. (2012 census)
rank Rank 145
height 3934  m
Post Code 02-1301-0601-2001
Telephone code (+591)
Coordinates 17 ° 20 ′  S , 67 ° 44 ′  W Coordinates: 17 ° 20 ′  S , 67 ° 44 ′  W
Sica Sica (Villa Aroma) (Bolivia)
Sica Sica (Villa Aroma)
Sica Sica (Villa Aroma)
politics
Department La Paz
province Provincial flavor
climate
Climate diagram Patacamaya
Climate diagram Patacamaya

Sica Sica is a country town in the La Paz department in the South American Andean state of Bolivia .

Location in the vicinity

Sica Sica is the administrative seat of the province of Aroma and the central place of the district (Bolivian: Municipio ) Sica Sica . The city is located at an altitude of 3934  m on the southwestern edge of the Serranía de Sicasica , a ridge that extends between La Paz and Cochabamba in a southeastern direction.

geography

Sica Sica is located on the Bolivian Altiplano between the Andes mountain ranges of the Cordillera Occidental in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east. The region has a distinctive time-of-day climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day are more pronounced than during the seasons.

The annual average temperature of the region is around 7 ° C, the annual precipitation is 460 mm (see climate diagram Patacamaya). The monthly average temperatures fluctuate only insignificantly between 4 ° C in June / July and 9 ° C in November / December, the monthly precipitation is between under 10 mm from May to August and 110 mm in January.

Transport network

Sica Sica is located at a distance of 124 kilometers by road southeast of La Paz , the capital of the department of the same name.

The asphalted highway Ruta 1 leads past La Paz, which leads from Lake Titicaca in a south-easterly direction via El Alto to Sica Sica and on via the departmental capitals Oruro , Potosí and Tarija to Bermejo on the Argentine border.

population

The population of the village has almost doubled over the past two decades:

year Residents source
1992 1 618 census
2001 3 831 census
2012 3,086 census

Due to the historically grown population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population, in the Municipio Sica Sica 90.3 percent of the population speak the Aymara language .

tourism

The tourist gem of Sica Sica is the Fernando Soria Cathedral , a national monument from the 17th century. The building, built in the style of the mestizo baroque and renaissance , houses relics in the form of wood carvings as well as chased gold and silver work from the time of the viceroyalty of Peru . Other tourist destinations near the village are the hot springs of Sica Sica and the village of Ayo Ayo , the birthplace of the indigenous rebel leader Julián Apaza (Tupaq Katari).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 1992
  2. ^ INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2001
  3. INE - Instituto Nacional de Estadística Bolivia 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / censosbolivia.ine.gob.bo
  4. INE social data 2001 (PDF; 12.2 MB)

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